Speech Pathology
Educational Goals
- To educate students to serve children and adults with communicative disorders in an environment in which excellence is expected and modeled
- Functional assessment and treatment that enhances clients’ day to day lives in work, school, and home settings
- Foster students’ abilities to adapt to the future, provide leadership, and enter the workforce in schools, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, private practice, or advanced degree programs
Benefits to Students
- Opportunities to work with a variety of patients across the age span in a variety of disorder areas
- Timely feedback from on-site clinical faculty
- Opportunities to work with other disciplines such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, special education, and psychology
Services
- Services provided for adults and children include evaluation and treatment of:
- Articulation
- Receptive and Expressive Language
- Fluency/Stuttering
- Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)
- Pragmatic (social) Skills Accent Reduction Communication difficulties following stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Last Modified: 01/30/09 at 10:24:30 AM